Web Extra! Video from Thursday's meetingTempers flared Thursday night as 36 people spoke at a special meeting called to discuss the park district's plans to renovate Field Park, with the debate centering around the proposal to remove nine trees in the park.

More than 60 northwest Oak Park residents rallied Sunday at Field Center to protest park district renovation plans which call for the removal of 14 shade trees and the replanting of nine others to make way for a new soccer field.

There won't be Friday night football under lights at Oak Park and River Forest High School this fall after all. School officials said Tuesday that lights will not be installed this summer in time for the 2007-08 school year. The school had planned to make its case at a Village of Oak Park Zoning Board of Appeals hearing tonight.

The River Forest village board approved a compromise historic preservation ordinance Monday, ending a years-long debate between the need for preserving historic architecture versus the need for preserving the rights of property owners.

After weeks of waiting and prayer and tears, Kathy Garrigan will finally be laid to rest this Friday. Marian Garrigan sat in the Journal's first floor lunchroom Monday, pleasant but tired. She wanted to talk a bit about her daughter and the search that recovered her body from an Alaskan lake, but mostly to thank the many people near and far who helped her and her family.

Prior to the release last week of discipline data for the 2006-07 school year at Oak Park and River Forest High School-which showed suspensions up for a third straight year-the District 200 Board of Education was exploring a full review of the school's Code of Conduct.

Village and community officials, and neighbors of Brooks Middle School are at odds over a transitional housing property that doesn't yet exist. With the West Cook YMCA set to move to Forest Park, the question of what will become of its 100-plus single room occupancy (SRO) housing development has sparked a conflict between a group of neighbors and the YMCA.